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1. Phonetics of English in the Nineteenth Century

   Edited by Beverly Collins, Inger Mees

   Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics

   Work on speech sound and the sound systems of languages can be traced back in the British Isles at least as far as the sixteenth century. It was, however, only in the nineteenth century that the word ‘phonetics’ was actually coined, and it was also at this time that a wider interest in the subject...

   Published October 31st 2006 by Routledge